{"id":198097,"date":"2024-10-22T02:23:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T07:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/elon-musk-sued-by-blade-runner-2049-producers-over-robotaxi-imagery"},"modified":"2024-10-22T02:23:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T07:23:38","slug":"elon-musk-sued-by-blade-runner-2049-producers-over-robotaxi-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/elon-musk-sued-by-blade-runner-2049-producers-over-robotaxi-imagery","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk sued by \u201cBlade Runner 2049\u201d producers over Robotaxi imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-sued-by-blade-runner-2049-producers-over-robotaxi-imagery3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" data-vars-link-text=\"Elon Musk\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/business\/elon-musk\" data-vars-content-id=\"a839d120-8595-47c6-97f0-05c0459d5cc7\" data-vars-headline=\"Elon Musk sued by 'Blade Runner 2049' producers over Robotaxi imagery\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/business\/elon-musk\" target=\"_self\">Elon Musk<\/a>, Tesla and Warner Brothers Discovery are being sued by \u201cBlade Runner 2049\u201d production firm Alcon Entertainment for alleged copyright infringement, which accused them on Monday of \u201ca massive economic theft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The big picture: <\/strong>Alcon alleges the defendants used an <a class=\"\" data-vars-link-text=\"AI\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/technology\/automation-and-ai\" data-vars-content-id=\"a839d120-8595-47c6-97f0-05c0459d5cc7\" data-vars-headline=\"Elon Musk sued by 'Blade Runner 2049' producers over Robotaxi imagery\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/technology\/automation-and-ai\" target=\"_self\">AI<\/a>-generated image like the one from \u201cBlade Runner 2049\u201d to promote <a class=\"\" data-vars-link-text=\"Tesla's robotaxi concept\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/10\/11\/tesla-robotaxi-tesla-cybercab-we-robot-musk\" data-vars-content-id=\"a839d120-8595-47c6-97f0-05c0459d5cc7\" data-vars-headline=\"Elon Musk sued by 'Blade Runner 2049' producers over Robotaxi imagery\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/10\/11\/tesla-robotaxi-tesla-cybercab-we-robot-musk\" target=\"_self\">Tesla\u2019s robotaxi concept<\/a> at Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s studio lot in Burbank, California, earlier this month after it denied their request to use \u201can iconic still\u201d from the 2017 movie at the event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zoom in: <\/strong>The production company alleges in the <a class=\"\" data-vars-link-text=\"suit\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cacd.945374\/gov.uscourts.cacd.945374.1.0.pdf\" data-vars-content-id=\"a839d120-8595-47c6-97f0-05c0459d5cc7\" data-vars-headline=\"Elon Musk sued by 'Blade Runner 2049' producers over Robotaxi imagery\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cacd.945374\/gov.uscourts.cacd.945374.1.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">suit<\/a>, filed on Monday in federal court in Los Angeles, that the event used an image that was reminiscent of a scene involving Ryan Gosling\u2019s character looking into an apocalyptic world in the sequel to the 1982 sci-fi classic \u201cBlade Runner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk, Tesla and Warner Brothers Discovery are being sued by \u201cBlade Runner 2049\u201d production firm Alcon Entertainment for alleged copyright infringement, which accused them on Monday of \u201ca massive economic theft.\u201d The big picture: Alcon alleges the defendants used an AI-generated image like the one from \u201cBlade Runner 2049\u201d to promote Tesla\u2019s robotaxi concept [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,2019,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}